Vision

We believe in the viability of a better Sao Paulo, another Sao Paulo:

•    just, with a better income distribution, respecting social diversity and equity, creating conditions for the complete development of its citizens, specially children, youngsters and adolescents, generating tranquility and acknowledgment of adults and aging people that build and lead their lives there;

•    beautiful, with well cared streets and other public spaces, regulating constructions, so that they do not disturb the citizens who circulate and live in the city, visually and in terms of space, making services and maintenance systems available, turning public and private spaces into cozy and well cared places, ensuring dignified conditions of productive life, leisure and housing to everyone who lives in Sao Paulo;

•    healthy, increasing its environmental assets, as well as improving control over pollution, completing sewage systems, collecting and recycling waste, turning river valleys into green areas; broadening the possibilities for the practice of sports as a way of promoting health, development and socialization;

•    safe, a lot less violent, in which all citizens may live, work and circulate without fear, respecting, at the same time, all civil and human rights;

•    efficient, in which cargo and people may circulate through an efficient and more human public transportation system, adequate to different users and their needs, regulating the use of private vehicles to the available road space, and that provides the necessary structures to good information and communication among all citizens;

•    democratic, where public education is of high quality, so that everyone may have the same development opportunities, and freedom of expression may be put into effect by everyone, through many communication systems, media and tools technically available, so as to contribute to an effective participative and direct democracy;

•    humanitarian and open to the world, intensely multicultural and educated for a good relationship among different people, valuing creativity, the product of intelligence, sensitivity and the work of its citizens, social and productive organizations, and public and private institutions.

We emphatically refuse that the following may be considered normal and acceptable:

•    Disrespect to laws and Constitution, such as corruption, tax evasion and disrespect to Children and Adolescents’ Statute, as well as the slow pace of the legal system, impunity and ethical mistakes under no allegation;

•    Prejudice and all forms of violence that affect mainly the excluded youth;

•    Structural unemployment and continuation of the chasm between high and low family income;

•    Lack of continuity, by minor party reasons, of approved projects;

•    Lack of transparency and information of public institutions;
•    Dilapidation of natural assets and resources, inherited and built throughout history;

•    Lack of civility and courteousness in the city’s day-to-day dimension, as well as indifference to public suffering and disrespect to Human Rights;

•    Absence of social and environmental commitment by private and public organizations;

•    Human beings living in the streets, slums, shantytowns and sub-normal housing and having to put up with floods;

•    Absence of areas for the practice of sports and leisure, mainly in the suburbs and low quality public education;

•    Long waits – weeks or months – for a doctor’s appointment or laboratorial tests;

•    Waste, daily, precious hours of our lives in chaotic traffic and transportation.